20/04/2018 |
No evidence can be found that Hugh McKeown was born in Cookstown |
26/03/2018 |
Private Hugh McKeown has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 4D-5B on the Thiepval Memorial in France. |
26/03/2018 |
Private McKeown was part of a night patrol lead by Lieutenant Cecil W Glenn when the 1st Battalion attacked enemy positions on 28th January 1917, south Le Transloy. Even though the mission was a success, the battalion lost eighteen men. |
26/03/2018 |
Private Hugh McKeown was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France on 28th January 1917. |
26/03/2018 |
Hugh enlisted in Cookstown. |